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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1963
Page
1
AP dispatch from Kansas City notes cattle calves steers and heifers mostly steady to strong with primes high and vealers steady. Listed prices include steers 20.50 to 23.00, heifers 22.75 to 23.00, mixed cattle 22.50 to 29.32, cows 14.00 to 13.0, hogs up to 25-50 higher, lambs 25.00 and ewes 5.00 to 6.25 with 2,000 head reported.
Santa Fe Trail Council winners in Pinewood Derby and Space Rocket Derby earn national competition eligibility. John Wagner, Pack 95, car weighs five ounces with six lacquer coats. Jim Hoyt, Pack 109, rocket weighs two and a half ounces, ten inches long. Entries to University of Illinois for state and national tests. 520 Scout councils eligible.
New York AP says the stock market firmed and moved irregularly higher in moderate trading. The Associated Press average of four stocks gained 0.1 to 271.2, Industrials up 0.7, while utilities fell 0.4. The Dow rose 2.53 to 719.02 as rails steadied after a rail unions postponement. steel shares dipped on weak weekly production. Major gainers included Zenith and U.S. Smelting. tobacco stayed soft with some resistance.
The Telegram reports Garden City architect Howard Blanchard was reappointed today by Gov. John Anderson to a four year term on the State Registration and Examining Board for architects. Also noted, Gwyn Ray Hatton of Syracuse is among Panhandle A and M College freshmen on the dean's honor roll for the spring semester with a 3.0 GPA or higher.
Assistant Police Chief Richard Rohleder said a hole had been broken through the roof between two coulers. Manager Bruce L. Robinson noted the break in attempt apparently occurred sometime Sunday night.
The son of Garden City physician Dr. C. T. Helwig received the Outstanding Alumnus award from Kansas University Medical Alumni Association. He served as pathologist at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City for nearly 36 years after graduating from KU medical school in 1922. The KU Medical Center dinner honoring him drew 420 guests as a new clinical research unit was dedicated. His father founded Garden City's first hospital around 1903 near 7th and Chestnut.
Kansas wheat crop in 1969 is forecast at 177 387 000 bushels with 21 bushels per acre and 8 447 000 acres. Drought early May reduced conditions but late May and June rains revived fields. About 20 percent of the crop was lost to dry weather bugs and winterkill, mainly in southwest Kansas. Combines progressed across the state with varying field yields and expectations for higher quality than last year.
John S. Neal, 79, former Garden City resident, died Sunday at his Glen Mills home. Survivors include widow, three sons John Jr and Nonza K. Neal of Levittown, Myron A. Neal of Glen Mills, two daughters Betty Belle Jones of Duncan Oklahoma and Avonell Hall of Levitown, two brothers James H. Neal of Wichita and Paul L. Neal of Bucklin, and a sister Mrs. Graves. Funeral and burial planned in Glen Mills.
Logan B Cannon 78 of Pratt died Friday night at Pratt County Hospital after months of illness. A retired Rock Island Railroad hostler with 40 years service, he was born August 24, 1884 in El Dorado. He married Bertha Schmitt on November 23, 1904 in Benton. He was a Baptist Church member. Surviving are his widow a son two daughters a sister 12 grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Funeral was yesterday with burial in Pratt cemetery.
Hospital admissions list for St Catherine to Leopard includes Goldsberry Mills Cheney Drescher Gaylord Stull White Clapper Nelson Koebn Byrum Norton etc with births recorded for Mills Koeln Byrum. Dismissals at St Catherine include Harrison Haflich Baxter OBlaness Brown Renick Dunlap Koehn Copeland Man. Births note son Mills and son Koeln and daughter Byrum with dates. Marriages Licenses for Uhis Reed and McGraw Sims. Warranty Deed filed Wendell Becraft to Leona Lareau Worf.
Leigh Warner and Leo Schlegel transfer property interests to Faben Gilstrap in 13-21-27 and 12-21-27. County court sentences Joe Burnett 12 days for no account checks. Fines issued to Richard Fisher for license issue, Lloyd Turney for illegal transport of alcohol, and others for speeding, assault and battery, and improper driving with bonds posted or forfeited.
Two collisions noted one at Kansas and Center at 7 33 pm involving Genevieve Be atrice Stull of Palco and Claude Franklin Wright of 1122 Pershing with extensive damage. A second crash occurred Monday at 2 pm in a high school parking lot involving a vehicle owned by Mrs Gertrude H Davis and a station wagon driven by Mrs Lawrence K Miller with no damage.
Washington AP reports rail operating unions accept a five day extension in the work rules dispute delaying a nationwide strike to next week. Railroads agreed to extend. unions say they will cooperate but plan to respond if new rules go into effect. Wirtz urged continued talks with federal mediators to avoid disruption of service.
Cadette Don Dale of Garden City is on a summer tour of South American countries with the United States Air Force Academy. Afterward he will be assigned to operation third lieutenant at Austin Texas for procurement and assignment training, then airborne training at Fort Benning Georgia before returning in August for the fall semester. He is the son of Dr and Mrs Z E Dale of Warmer Terrace.
Five boys and 76 convicts in New York prisons inspired a blood drive after two hemophiliac brothers, Mike and Pete Meurer, required roughly 100 pints yearly. Thomas McCarthy led inmates in donating a pint each, sending best wishes to the boys' family. Mike died before the letter reached Pete.
Jim Concannon of Garder City Chapter and three Liberal Chapter members received the Representative DeMolay award in public ceremonies at the Masonic Temple in Liberal on Sunday. Honorees include H. L. Sawyer Ernie Miller and Dan Pitzer Liberal notes nine DeMolay winners. Concannon is the seventh Gard en City recipient.
Carol Evans daughter of Mr and Mrs Jordan Evans of Fremont Nebraska graduated Cum Laude at Fremont High School commencement last Friday She is granddaughter of the late Judge and Mrs Fred J Evans of Garden City and a member of the National Honor Society She ranked 12th in a class of 220 seniors and received the best all around girl student award from principal Gerald W Meyer She plans to enroll at the University of Kansas Lawrence this fall to major in journalism
Mrs John Riggs of Holcomb was chosen by Kansas AAUW president Mrs Robert Herzog to serve a two year term as state chairman of the committee on elementary and secondary education at the State Board meeting in Ellsworth Saturday She will attend the national AAUW meeting in Denver later this month as a voting delegate.
The Faith 7 Reading Club at Garden City Public Library elected Julia Hart as president, Caroline Holmes as vice president, Georgianna Southern as secretary, Mary Lewis as assistant secretary, and Lowry Foster as publicity chairman. The club will advise on books to read and assist the librarian in selecting books for grades seven to nine.
Baghdad demands Kurdish leaders surrender as ultimatum expires. Kurdish spokesman warns the move means war after negotiations over autonomy collapsed and Iraq signals a broader attack against northern Kurdish forces in oil rich regions.
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